Improvement in sockets for hanger-bars



UNITED STATES ATENT EEICE.

T. A. SUMMERS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOCKETS FOR HANGER-BARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 11,02 7, dated December 22,1863.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, 'l. A. SUMMERS, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State ot New York, have invented a new and useful Socket for the Reception and Support of Removable Hanger-Bars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a t'ull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part ot this specitication, in which Figure l is a face view of a square socket. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, showing asection ofthe hangerbar B. Fig. 3 is a face view of a round socket. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a tace view of an octagonal socket.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s in the several iigures.

The nature and obje'ct oil this invention will be understood by reference to the drawings g and specification.

The socket shown in Figs. l and 2 is composed ot two parallel sides, b and d, which are connected at the top by the projecting webf and iiat plate g, and at the bottom by the curved plate h, which latter terminates at the top with a sharp edge, o. There is a flange or rest, a, for the support ofthe bar B, projecting inward, near the upper edge of the plate la, as seen in Fig. 2; or,'it' desired, it may be cast upon the outside. The object of the edge c is to prevent the displacement of the bar B while in use. The fla-t plate g is provided with several holes, e, to receive the screws for attaching the socket to the wall. This socket (shown in Figs. l and 2) 1s designed to receive square hanger-bars, which would probably be the most convenient shape for them when intended to be used for the support ot' shelving. The round socket (shown in Figs. -3 and 4) is provided on the lower side with a projecting plate, p, and a central angle-plate, y, which is designed to brace and strengthen the l barrel of the socket. A face view of a socket for oetagonal hanger-bars is shown in Fig. 5, and it is otherwise constructed the same as the round socket. The sockets may be cast of any suitable metal, and the sides of either variety are susceptible ot' being more or less ornamented with carved designs.

The temporary use ot' hanger-bars Vis often required for supporting shelves, and for other uses in places where the room occupied by them, when not in use, is desirable for other purposes; and there are many situations where it is impracticable to make a mortisel or bore a hole in the wall for the reception of a pin (r han ger-bar, and when the ordinary anglebrackets are used they are by no means conveniently removed, as several screws are required to attach them, and if removed the walls would be left defaeed; furthermore, there are many uses to which the angle-bracket is not so perfectly adapted as the socket and bar herein specilied. For instance, in looking-glass and picture-frame shops and stores, where it is desirable to economize room, there may be several sockets and bars iixed close together, forming a vertical row, and large frames hung upon the upper bar, a size smaller on the next, and so on, thus forming a nest of frames. The bars B are removed by simply raising the outer end to relieve them from the edge c, when they may be withdrawn. They may be made two feet, more or less, in length.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A socket for a removable hanger-bar, constructed substantially as described, as a new article of manufacture.

T. A. SUMMERS.

Witnesses:

WM. S. LoUGHBoRoUGH, WM. J. McPI-rEusoN. 

